by Leah Langby | Mar 20, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
File This Under The Value of Storytime, from Becky Arenivar, Programming Specialist at the Prescott Public Library:Last week a local mom stopped into the library just to tell us that her 3rd grade son had won the elementary school Spelling Bee (beating 4th and 5th...
by Leah Langby | Feb 13, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
What do you do when your terrific storytime starts to devolve into a distracted, wiggly mass of kids? I’m serious, I’d love to hear some of your suggestions. Here are a few I used to use:Don’t be afraid to abort a mission to read a book...
by Leah Langby | Oct 2, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Jill Patchin of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire for this guest post:I have XM radio in my car and a 2 year old, so we listen to Kids Place Live quite a bit (and I confess to listening to it even after I drop him off at day...
by Leah Langby | Aug 8, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jill Patchin at the public library in Eau Claire for this review (the above photo is from a baby storytime at the library, where I’m sure these CDs will come in handy!)We recently got a set of new cds from The LearningGroove. I found them this...
by Leah Langby | Jun 7, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
NOTE: This site is no longer available. Burnaby Public Library in British Columbia, Canada is collecting songs and rhymes in many languages so everyone can learn them. Videos of 30 songs and rhymes in 15 languages are available through the Embracing Diversity:...
